Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01

of thirty miles and the American river fol
| fifteen, are the finest in the world, and the
land produces more and better fruit 10 the
acre"
WEALTH PRODUCING.
While the orchardIsts along the river
banks have become wealthy from their
| never failing annual crops of fruits, those
back from the river, in the central and
middle portions of the county. have been
almost equally successful. There is no
land, no locality in the county that is not
adapted to successful Embarrassing.
As wine-producing county, Sacramento
has no superior, and her shipment of table
grapes to the Eastern market is larger than
that OF any county in the State. While
Sacramento boasts of her many miles of
continuous orchards, her particular pride is
in the extent and profit of her vineyards.
Grape-growing has ever been source of
profit in California, and especially so in this
section.
THE NAToMA VINEYARD,
Some sixteen miles east of Sacramento
City, is one of the largest and finest vine
yards in the world. 1t has total acreage of
over 1000 acres in one solid body, in shape
an oolong square, most of which is bearing
vines of the choicest and most profitable
varieties. During the vintage season, sew
eral cars loaded with grapes were shipped
from this vineyard daily. The Sacramento
Valley Railroad runs through the center of
this immense vineyard, and il is an object
of great interest to Eastern visitors, and
shows what this soil can and does produce
without irrigation.
There is no waste land in Sacramento
county. All is under fence and except a
few fields kept for grazing all is under cul-
tivation. Out from the river are found
grain farms, diaries, some orchards and
vineyards, and stock farms. The finest
and best stocked blood-horse farms in the
United States, if not in the world, are in
this county. J. B. Haggin on Rancho Del
Paso, and Theodore Winters on Rancho
Del Rio.
LARGEST HOP FIELDS IN THE WORLD.
For several years past much of the bot
tom land along the rivers has been devoted
to hop culture, for which it is peculiarly
adapted. The yield is uniformly heavy.
Indeed, Sacramento hops are preferred over
those of most other sections, and command
the highest prices in the Eastern and Euro
pean markets While hop culture is an
uncertain venture as regards the realization
of big profits, still lit is an important branch
of industry, and one in which large for
tunes have been made in this county.
Some seasons when the crops are light in
the East and Europe, our growers realize
! immense profits and as whole or partial
failures OF crops are of frequent occurrence,
California growers are thus often benefited.
They can be grown at a profit for ten cents
pound A few years ago they sold as
high as a dollar pound, and many of
our heretofore modest farmers realized
handsome fortunes Two thousand dollars
ton to men who had thousands of them
Tor sale was a handsome profit, and land
that would produce crop worth $4,000 per
acre was properly considered valuable land,
This year crops were again up in the
thirties per pound, and as all the farmers
in the business had large crops, they real
lied handsome profits. One farmer, who